By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. My Journey Towards Jihad is the 19th counter narrative video clip in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. It features Abu Albani, a Kosovar foreign fighter who went twice to Syria; first to join and fight with the…
ICSVE's new Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Video by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Today, ICSVE releases Rewards of the Islamic State, the 18th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series, videos which can be found both…
Anne Speckhard & Lorand Bodo PDF here Abstract Since its inception in 2014, ISIS has unleashed an unprecedented social-media recruiting drive on a 24/7 basis in over twenty-one world languages. While ISIS has lost much of the territory it once…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here BAGHDAD - The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) researchers recently took part in Department of Defense (DOD - CENTCOM) and Iraqi government jointly sponsored incubator program held in Baghdad, Iraq. Facilitated…
by Anne Speckhard, Lorand Bodo & Haris Fazliu[1] PDF here The Western Balkans has been over represented on a per capita basis for foreign recruitment in terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Nusra. Research shows that much of the recruitment into…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. [1] PDF here AMMAN, Jordan: What does Abu Qatada, the so-called “spiritual father” of al-Qaeda in Europe and man responsible for a fatwa on Algeria that some argue offered ideological justifications for killing civilian family members of…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.[1] PDF here Abu Qatada, who many have called the spiritual father of al Qaeda in Europe, is a scholar of Islam and what many might deem a terrorist instigator, or an ideologue who puts out arguments in…
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Promises of the Caliphate features Abu Fahad, a thirty-five year old Iraqi man whose city was taken by ISIS. Married with children he joined the group, rather than fled, and became a supplier to them. Now…
Americans and Russians have converged on the Euphrates valley where the ISIS “caliphate” is making a last stand. They “think” Baghdadi’s alive there. But he could be long gone. ANNE SPECKHARD ARDIAN SHAJKOVCI 01.06.18 9:30 PM ET as published in…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D ICSVE is proud to release its new Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narratives video clip, Establishing an Islamic State. This video clip features Abu Omar, who in 2006 as a boy of age 15, joined al Qaeda…